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The vampiric wizard Uctebri has eventually got his fingers on the Darkness Container and may finally start his dim ritual--a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor thinks will give him immortality--but Uctebri has their own ideas for both Emperor and the Empire.The massed Wasp armies are on the march, and the spymaster Stenwold must-see which of his partners will remain today that the battle has finally appeared. This time around the Kingdom won't quit till a dark and silver flag waves over Stenwold's home town of Collegium.Tisamon the Weaponsmaster is faced with a dreadful decision: a route that can cause him to reject his buddies and his child, to manage destruction and damage, that may perhaps carry him prior to the Wasp Emperor with a knife in his hand--but is he being pushed by Mantis-kinden recognition, or altered by something more sinister?